Thanks for any help your able to give.

The Package & Deployment Wizard won't allow my FIND command to work like it should after it becomes an executable. How can I get it to work as an executable like it does in the vb environment? The program simply won't package right, it finds the record, then crashes the program.

The FIND command uses an API call to find records in Access database-this didn't work until after I down loaded a patch from www.microsoft. Now it works no problem except as an executable and only in the vb environment. The patch was part of the mega patch 5 from vb-(mdac_type.exe) solved the problem in the vb environment. The api call is Public Declare Function SendMessagebystring& Lib "user32" _
Alias "SendMessageA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, _
ByVal wMsg As Long, ByVal wParam As Long, _
ByVal lParam As String)